Device for attracting attention.



J. A. PARTINGTON.

DEVICE FOR ATTRAGTING ATTENTION. APPLICATION FILED APR. so, 1913.

1,096, 1 22. a n d May 12, 1914.

WITNESSES ATTORNEY UNITED STATES'PATENT ()FFIGE.

JACK ALLAN PABTINGTON, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

I DEVICE FOR ATTBACTING ATTENTION.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACK ALLAN PARTING- TON, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city and" county of San Francisco, State of California','haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Attractin Attention, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the art of attracting attention, and especially to that division of the art which deals with the presentation of advertising matter. Its object is to rovide a new and useful means for attractmg attention to a display surface, particularly to screens for exhibiting moving pictures during intermissions. At such times it has become quite common to fill in the intervals between the films by throwing advertisements on the screen; but hitherto there has been no auxiliary means for keeping at tention directed to the screen beyond the inherent attractiveness of the advertisements themselves. I have discovered that if a clock-face is pictured on the screen, and the hour and minute pointers are moved over the surface of the clock and then stopped in position to show the correct time at any moment, the desired attention is secured, especially if the minute hand keeps moving.

My invention therefore consists in broad terms of means for throwing a picture of a clock face ,on a picture screen, means for throwin on said clock-face the shadow of moving hour and minute hands, and means for moving said shadow.

it also consists in a stereopticon slide frame, a stereopticon plate of a clock-face,

movable hour and minute pointers between the light and the screen, a clock-train for moving said pointers supported said frame, and hand-operated means for actuating said clock-train.

' It also consists in the novel parts, combinations and arrangements set forth in the following description, articularly pointed out in the claims and ilustrated in the accompanying one sheet of drawing, of which Figure l is a front elevation of a stereopticon slide showing the clock-face plate in position, and the hands pointing a time; Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same slide, the clock-face indicated and the hands moved to another position; and Fig. 3 is a detail view somewhat enlarged of the mechanism for moving the hands.

I Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed Apri180, 1913. Serial No. 784,672.

Patented May 12, 1914.

The same symbol of reference marks the same part in whichever View said partmay appear.

Referring to thedrawing, A is a stereopticon slide on which a plate 1 is mounted.

The plate carries a picture 2 of a clock-face; and between the plate and thelight the handsB, 4, are secured .to the clock-train 5 in the housing 6. The clock-train mechanism and housing are supported by an arm 7 fixed to the frame, and serving also to support a rotatable rod 8 which extends through the frame and ends in a thumb nut 9 at the outer extremity, and in a pinion 10 at the inner. Pinion 1O meshes with gear 11 of the clock train and thus allows the hands to be turned by the thumb-screw.

To use my device, the slide is put in place on a stereopticon, the hands being prefer-- ably located between the light and the plate, although the location on thevopposite side of the plate would stillthrow the shadow, so 1 do not wish to be confined to the precise location stated. The hands 3 and 4 are then moved over the surface of the plate, and their shadows move over the picture screen until they are stopped at the points indicating the correct time. If attention is desired to be maintained for several minutes, the hands are given movements in any desired way, and experiment shows that the desired effect of fixing attention on the screen is thereby secured. The dark space on the plate is provided for hiding the mechanism and its housing 6 and the rod is brought in over the l in TX so that the moving mechanism is not apparent. The screen can then be covered with projected advertisements arranged within the visual angle, about or Within the clock-face picture.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, modifications within the scope of the claims being expressly reserved, is:

1. in attention attracting device comprising a stereopticon slide having a clock-face plate, pointers for indicating time movable over the surface of said plate, supports fixed to said slide, clock-train mechanism for moving said pointers carried by said supports, and a rotatable rod extending beyond the frame of the slide having at its inner end a gear meshing with said clock-train and at its outer end a thumb nut.

2. An attention attracting device comprising a stereopticon slide having a clockface plate, pointers for indicating time movable over the surface of said plate, mechanism for moving said pointers located near-the center .1 of the clock-face, and means on said plate for obscuring the shadow of the mechanism.

3. A stereopticon slide having a clock face with the characters near the outer portion of the plate, means to obscure the central portion of said clock face, two pointers for indicating the time movable over the clock face, mechanism for moving said pointers located near the center of the clock face he- In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two witnesses, at the cit and county of San Francisco, this 22nd ay of April, 1913.

JACK ALLAN PARTINGTON.

Witnesses:

FRANK P. MEDINA, F. C. BLUMBERG. 

